Shukhrat Safin was a chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster (1999). He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002

FIDE World Chess Championship 2002

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the final match started on 16 January and ended on 23 January 2002...

, but was knocked out in the first round by Predrag Nikolić

Predrag Nikolic

Predrag Nikolić is a Bosnian chess grandmaster.He first competed for the Yugoslav Championship in 1979, taking a share of second place. The following year and again in 1984, he went one step further and became the Yugoslav national champion...

.

In 2001, he won the Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

 chess championship. In 2008 he came third in the Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 Open. In 2009, tied for 5th-10th with Chakkravarthy Deepan

Chakkravarthy Deepan

Chakkravarthy Deepan is an Indian chess Grandmaster .In 2004 he tied for 2nd-4th with Praveen Thipsay and Saidali Iuldachev in the Piloo Mody International Open in Lucknow...

, Georgy Timoshenko, Sundar Shyam, Saidali Iuldachev

Saidali Iuldachev

Saidali Iuldachev is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster .He won Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1993 and 2003. In 2004 he tied for 2nd-4th with Praveen Thipsay and Chakkravarthy Deepan in the Piloo Mody International Open in Lucknow and tied for first with Maxim Sorokin in the Murzagaliev Memorial...

 and Andrei Deviatkin

Andrei Deviatkin

-Chess career:* 2007 - tied for 1st-9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Alexander Evdokimov, Denis Khismatullin, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Sergei Azarov in the Aratovsky Memorial in Saratov;...

in the Mumbai Mayor Cup. He died of blood cancer.

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